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What You'll Do The purpose of this newly created role in the LAB Operations Team is to create a ‘great place to work’ for our London employees and visiting clients to our office. The London office is a flagship office in our LAB (London, Amsterdam, Brussels) system, being the largest office, and the focus needs to be on creating and maintaining a ‘hub’ and thriving center, not only for our London-based employees but also for visiting employees from Amsterdam and Brussels; a destination place to work. The Facilities & Operations Senior Manager will be responsible for leading the delivery and optimization of a portfolio of best-in-class services and facilities at the local level, that cater for local requirements, and ensure parity with other LAB offices, creating a high-quality experience for the system as whole and encouraging inter-LAB mobility. You will work closely both with the Office Leader for London and local HR & Operations leadership, to support the delivery of their local goals for the office environment, and employee experience, the LAB Operations Senior Director and the rest of the LAB Operations Leadership Team, to deliver LAB-wide projects and improvements for the benefit of all offices. *Your responsibilities will include: * • Lead and execute the delivery of all local services and facilities, including Reception, Catering, Cleaning, M&E, Logistics, • Oversee in-house teams, all London vendor contracts and on-site vendor teams, day-to-day, ensuring SLAs and KPIs are adhered to and the highest levels of service delivery, coaching where required to improve performance, • Continuously look to improve the local office environment, local services and facilities, and employee / visiting client experiences – work in partnership with the Director, Operational Excellence on local/LAB-wide operational improvements., • Exercise sound commercial judgment and effectively track and manage all services within agreed Opex budgets, also local Capex project budgets – liaising with and conducting regular budget reconciliation meetings with local and LAB-Finance teams where required., • HS&E lead and responsible person on-site (internal mandatory training, risk assessment, DSE’s, Accident and near miss investigation) as supported by H&S consultants and Compliance / Auditing., • Active member of the Incident Response Team, regularly updating IRT documentation and organizing the bi-annual table-top exercises, to ensure systems and processes are robust and well maintained., • Oversee the delivery of front of house / reception services to a high standard for all visitors and employees., • Execute the delivery of all events and meetings within the London office, including working closely with internal stakeholders, the building reception to ensure a seamless visitor journey for guests, and IT/AV to ensure a good experience of technology., • Develop and inspire a high performing team of local resources / vendor personnel and grow that capability, as required, either with BCG or vendor resources, to meet the demands of the site., • Define clear roles and responsibilities within the operations team ensuring accountability and ownership and good cross-team working, also partnership with other local BST teams, i.e., IT/AV and HR., • Participate in onboarding and induction of new joiners to BCG, completing office tours and presentations, • As a key member of the LAB Leadership Team, build strong relationships with your peers, contribute actively and with a positive mind-set to any LAB-wide activities, discussions and initiatives, to ensure their success., • Partner with your local Amsterdam and Brussels Workplace Operations Manager counterparts, to understand their needs and provide strategic Operations solutions across all LAB offices. • Ownership and delivery of business improvement projects and office programs, across London, i.e., business continuity planning, incident response, and contribution to large-scale office programs across LAB, when required, i.e., roll-out of new technologies across all 3 sites. • Effective tracking of key operational metrics related to London, i.e., local attendance, space utilization, etc. that affords local leadership a detailed view of their real estate investments; space utilization, employee behaviors, and allows for the aggregation of data to a LAB level for a management dashboard. What You'll Bring • 8+ years’ experience working in an operational / service delivery leadership role in-house in an organization, • Experience working in a fast-paced professional service firm environment, • Extensive technical knowledge in a range of building services disciplines across facilities or estate management, with experience of managing both in-house teams and out-sourced providers, • Extensive knowledge of HS&E obligations, and experience in all practical aspects of deploying HS&E compliance, • Good with data; ability to analyze and interpret both technical and financial information, • Excellent English skills (verbal and written communication), • Excellent communication and presentation skills; confident user of the Microsoft Office Suite, • Ability to influence senior stakeholders with reason and logic, • University degree preferred, • Event management and client-experience related projects preferred, • Given the nature of the role, a typical week will require four days in the office as a minimum. 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About Barhale Who are Barhale? Barhale is a business founded on family values, having been established by our Chairman, Dennis Curran, in 1980. We are one of the largest privately owned civil engineering and infrastructure specialists in the UK, with over 40 years of experience in providing design, civil engineering and maintenance services working across multiple sectors, including: • Water, • Transport, • Built environment Our direct delivery model is at the core of everything we do, as we believe that people are our greatest asset. Therefore, we robustly source, train and retain all our own frontline delivery teams as well as management and support services. We employ over 1,200 employees nationwide. We possess a range of specialist skills to support our civil engineering and infrastructure activities, including: • Tunnelling, • MEICA, • Temporary and permanent design, • Steel-fabrication, • Signs (design and fabrication) Company Showcase Video: Why join Barhale? • As Gold Investors in People, we are committed to a high standard of people practices, creating an inclusive environment and ensuring cultural alignment to business strategy, ethos and philosophies., • Job security, long-term secured work through various frameworks and large infrastructure schemes, • Broad range of civil engineering, mechanical and electrical schemes across some of the UK’s largest infrastructure projects and clients The Role To provide customer service to all stakeholders, which aligns with Barhale’s 3 Pillars Sustainability Model of Profit, Safety, and Environment. The post holder will work collaboratively with our clients to support a region-wide customer strategy, to guide project-specific customer plans. Key Responsibilities Strategy • Establish and maintain a good working relationship with our clients to define and support the customer strategy, • Contribute to the development and implementation of the customer strategy through analysis of performance, • To assist customer management processes by listening to the voice of the customer during the planning and delivery stages of the project, • Measure the customer experience that impacts our CMex/DMex and NPS measures to produce valuable insights and to identify customer trends., • To ensure that our customer action plan maximises the customer experience and meets local community needs, • Monitoring and measuring of customer satisfaction KPIs, • Be responsible for reporting on the customer satisfaction scoring and providing feedback to our clients and operational teams, • Engage with the Client’s Customer Challenge Group to develop and improve the customer relationship, • Support the development of Power BI Apps to analyse/collate/communicate data through digital portals, • Work closely with our clients and Barhale’s team to develop/share digital methods (Twitter/blogs/apps) to allow customers to engage and gain valuable customer insights, • To work with the design and delivery team to ensure project deliverables provide an excellent customer experience, • Follow and promote the Barhale customer handbook and ensure that the handbook guidelines are followed by site and operational teams; support in developing and updating the Barhale customer handbook, • Support Clients with their customer engagement targets and promote and implement key messages in local communities, • Take a proactive approach in promoting civil engineering as a career choice to schools and colleges by attending and delivering STEM events, • Engagement with the local community by visiting the areas to identify issues with services, access, vulnerable people, landlords/owners, and stakeholders, • Liaise with the local community regarding project plans to keep residents and members of the public up to date with project developments and measure project plan performance, • Share knowledge and provide training when applicable with the site team regarding good public relations through our values Essential • Previous experience working within a Customer/Community-focused position, • Proficient in delivering service improvements, • Accomplished in research insight and analytics, with the ability to present the data, • Good interpersonal, organisational, communication and time management skills, • Ability to show empathy and understanding of customer needs, • Proficient with the Microsoft suite of packages, • Good social media skills with the ability to develop engaging and timely updates on project development across varied communication platforms Our values have been embedded at Barhale for over 40 years, and they are our guiding principles regarding how we care and invest in people. Our values are our commitment to being a people-centric company. As a Gold Investors in People company and a Sunday Times 100 Best Company to Work For, we are committed to investing in people. We are passionate about creating a working environment where people are supported throughout their careers, where people can enjoy security and be part of a company that cares about them. From the moment you join us, your well-being and career aspirations will be supported by. • Competitive salary, • Company Pension, • Life Assurance, • Private Medical, • 25 days of annual leave in addition to 8 public bank holidays and loyalty days, • 8 hours volunteering, • Employee Assistance Programme to support your mental, physiological and financial wellbeing, • Flexible benefits via salary sacrifice, • Company car/green car scheme/car allowance/Van (dependent on position), • Leadership & management training and coaching, • Regular line management engagement and appraisal to support your career progression, • Development supported by internal and externally delivered training Please contact our Recruitment team via

About Barhale Who are Barhale? Barhale is a business founded on family values, having been established by our Chairman, Dennis Curran, in 1980. We are one of the largest privately owned civil engineering and infrastructure specialists in the UK, with over 40 years of experience in providing design, civil engineering and maintenance services working across multiple sectors, including: • Water, • Transport, • Built environment Our direct delivery model is at the core of everything we do, as we believe that people are our greatest asset. Therefore, we robustly source, train and retain all our own frontline delivery teams as well as management and support services. We employ over 1,200 employees nationwide. We possess a range of specialist skills to support our civil engineering and infrastructure activities, including: • Tunnelling, • MEICA, • Temporary and permanent design, • Steel-fabrication, • Signs (design and fabrication) Company Showcase Video: Why join Barhale? • As Gold Investors in People, we are committed to a high standard of people practices, creating an inclusive environment and ensuring cultural alignment to business strategy, ethos and philosophies., • Job security, long-term secured work through various frameworks and large infrastructure schemes, • A broad range of civil engineering, mechanical and electrical schemes across some of the UK’s largest infrastructure projects and clients The Role As a MEICA Estimator, you will be responsible for developing MEICA estimates and tenders for our MEICA-related projects. The role will include the successful development of the project scope and design as it drives through the estimating and tendering process through to contract award. Your involvement in the projects will then continue as you provide advice and support to the Contracts Manager through the enabling phase of the project. The tendering of Barhale MEICA projects and its strategy will be set by the Southern Regional Director in line with the MEICA aspect of the business plan. You will help to deliver Barhale’s MEICA strategy by providing successful estimates and by contributing to decisions regarding project methodology, programme & safety and subcontractor selection, to ensure that we meet the client’s project requirements. You will be a key link and will work collaboratively work with the MEICA Contracts Manager, Project Manager, Project Engineers, Bid Manager and Commercial team to meet the project requirements in a safe, efficient and environmentally sensitive manner. As MEICA Estimator, you will be expected to contribute fully to the growth of the MEICA business through successful project delivery. This will involve you getting into and owning the finite details of each project, to ensure that it is efficiently priced, programmed and planned to meet project milestones, whilst driving value and providing the required levels of contribution at all levels. It will also involve you in obtaining and sharing feedback from project outcomes as they are delivered in order to gather learning that can be embedded into future estimates. Key Responsibilities Pricing Working with the MEICA Project and Barhale civils team to effectively manage the tender pricing process including tender appraisals and contribution to the enabling phase by: • Developing the scope of work for the project with the MEICA team, • Sharing that scope with the Bid team including inputting to the technical quality responses, • Applying your experience of MEICA equipment and services used in the construction of Water and Wastewater Treatment Works to achieve a safe, efficient and environmentally friendly solution for each project, • Contributing to process design development and then ensuring that designs are checked and verified and are sufficiently developed to ensure accurate tender submissions, • Management of our selected contractors ensuring quality of delivery and value for money in all tender submissions, including:, • Preparing material, equipment, and sub-contract enquiries, • Collating and managing technical enquiries raised by our trusted supply chain partners and, evaluating their tender returns for compilation into the tender, • Production of the MEICA cost estimate for tender submission by producing bottom-up estimates derived from the client scope and technical information, • Risk and value management during the tender period, • Preparing budgets and cost plans, • Ensuring that actual cost data and programme milestone delivery achievement is captured, so that you can compare actual outputs to tendered expectations, develop learning regarding these differences and share and embed this learning into future tenders, • Promoting the use of innovative methods, materials & safe systems of work, • Communicating clearly and effectively with senior management, designers, consultants, clients, and project teams on all relevant technical matters, • Being the key point of contact between the project and the programme, • Managing stakeholder communications and key messages for the project and recording and sharing these in a timely manner, • Ensuring client specifications and requirements are met during delivery by reviewing progress and liaising with the Barhale MEICA and project team Essential • Full understanding of the complexities of MEICA equipment and systems, • Ability to evaluate proposals from the supply chain for MEICA equipment including scope of supply, technical compliance, and commercial offer, • Able to interpret technical drawings from clients, develop baseline cost estimates and routines, and produce labour, plant, and material cost build-ups, • A level, or equivalent plus either a foundation degree, or HNC in Mechanical or Electrical engineering, • MEICA (mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control, and automation) installation/commissioning knowledge, as well as process understanding for both water and wastewater treatment and technical construction knowledge, • Knowledge of estimating software such as Candy would be useful but not essential, • Understanding multiple forms of contracts, including NEC, as well as the operation of frameworks within the water and wastewater industry, • SMSTS/SSSTS, • CSCS card, • First Aid Our values have been embedded at Barhale for over 40 years, and they are our guiding principles regarding how we care and invest in people. Our values are our commitment to being a people-centric company. As a Gold Investors in People company and a Sunday Times 100 Best Company to Work For, we are committed to investing in people. We are passionate about creating a working environment where people are supported throughout their careers, where people can enjoy security and be part of a company that cares about them. From the moment you join us, your well-being and career aspirations will be supported by. • Competitive salary, • Company Pension, • Life Assurance, • Private Medical, • 25 days of annual leave in addition to 8 public bank holidays and loyalty days, • 8 hours volunteering, • Employee Assistance Programme to support your mental, physiological and financial wellbeing, • Flexible benefits via salary sacrifice, • Company car/green car scheme/car allowance/Van (dependent on position), • Leadership & management training and coaching, • Regular line management engagement and appraisal to support your career progression, • Development supported by internal and externally delivered training Please contact our Recruitment team via